Class Syllabus - Keep a copy of your Class Syllabus in the Front of your Interactive Notebook.
Read and discuss class expectations, Dare County Student Code of Conduct Handbook, and or forms to the students as directed by administration. Have student complete Student Information Sheet,Medical Information Sheet and other school forms that need to be completed for 2011 - 2012
Create a Wordle cover for your Interactive Notebook.
wordle.net Writing, Research, and Oral Skills
Each Thursday and Friday, students will spend time working on selected sections of the Senior Graduation Project. Poetry Analysis and Oral Presentations
Juniors may opt to participate in Poetry Out Loud. Whether they participate in Poetry Out Loud or not, they are still required to memorize two selected poems and complete a TPCASTT analysis of each in his or her Junior Interactive Notebook.
Learners will be able to compare and contrast a selected poem with a select art form. Friday, August 26 - Sept. 7 Part 1 - Junior Interactive Notebook lessons
Unit 1 - A Gathering of Voices: Literature of Early America (Beginnings to 1730)
Read exploration narratives
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Exploration Narratives.ppt research maps of early explorers and art that reflected early interactions with Natives
Title:Writer's Style Guide for Students Grade levels:upper elementary through adult Content summary:This is a comprehensive reference guide for writers of all ages. It includes a grammar guide, punctuation rules, mechanics conventions, commonly misspelled or misused words, and a guide for citing sources. However, there are a few changes to citing sources that are notes in the link that follow that are updated. Also included is a guide to the writing process and many useful examples. Downloads:web, Kindle, ePUB
Use this update link for Citing sources: MLA Format for Research example paper with Works Cited
Use the MLA Format above for all essays Reading
When European explores first set foot in the New World, they enountered people who had been native to the Americas for thousands of years. Because the Europeans thought they had landed in the "Indies," or the Far East, they called the natives Indians. No one name, however, would adequately describe the variety of cultures that flourished from one end of America to the other.
Generaltion after generation these Native Americans had told stories, sung songs, and recited groups of tales that embodied their past and told of their close relationship with the natural world. Their mythologies, songs, and ritual chants were rarely written down, though some tribes, such as the Delaware, did develop forms of writing, each genetation transmitting its literature to its yong people by word of mouth. The result is a literture that is timeless, a literature created by no one author. It is a literature made by its people. Objectives: Respond to some examples of Native American literature Recognize elements of mythology common to many cultures
Build Skills: Preview, page 2* The Earth on Turtle's Back, from the Onondaga, page 3 * When Grizzlies Walked Upright, from the Modoc, page 4 * from The Navajo Origin Legend, from the Navajo, page 5 * from The Iroquois Constitution, page 6 * Selection, page 7, Apply Skills page 10
Click the link below and discover what archetypes appear in the video. What deeper meaning do these archetypes respresent, and do these archetypes still exist in our own culture today; if so, explain in detal using the border sheet that I present to you?
For homework watch the series:
<p> <a href="http://www.firstpeople.us/">Native Americans</a> <br>First People is a child friendly site about Native Americans and members of the First Nations. 1400+ legends, 400+ agreements and treaties, 10,000+ pictures, free clipart, Seed Bead Earrings, Native American Jewelry, Possible Bags and more.</p>
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/You +1'd this publicly. Undo3 min - Nov 1, 2008From the award-winning PBS series American Experience comes. We Shall Remain, a provocative multi-media project that establishes ...
cont. Unit I - Build Skills: A Journey Through Texas > Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower of Seville, page 11 * A Journey Through Texas by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, page 12 * Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower of Seville by Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, page 13 * Apply the Skills, page 14
Added 10/27/09: Ready Made Graphic Organizers U.S. History (Colonial to Present) LARGE FIL
Sept. 14th - 15th
The dramatic story of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus has become a familiar part of our culture. For years Columbus tried to convince his patrons that he could reach the riches of the East by sailing west, that he would not sail off the edge of the earth. Finally with the support of Spain's Queeen Isbella, he was able to pursue his dream with his three ships, the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. The discovery ot the New World brought Columbus fame and an appointment as Admiral of the Ocean Sea. His later attempts to establish colonies in America were not successful, however, and his last years were filled with disappointments and a sense of failure. Here is Columbus' own account, from his journal, of the final days of his first and most extraordinary voyage and the landing on the island of San Salvador in 1492. Columbus' nonfiction, real-life adventure might be considered the first Amerian story--both a quest for a dream and a record of hard fact. The verson from the Spanish was made by the twentieth-century American poet William Carlos Williams *Imagine keeping a diary while a diary while on a boat lost at sea. What sort of entries might you make? Why do you think so many early explorers and settlers described the New World as Columbus did? What hopes might they have had for this land?
Thematic Options: discovery, confronting hardship, responses to nature will appear in the following link: Learners will respond in a whole group five important events that took place during the colonization of America during this period of time.
ELL learners can understand the relevance of the literature through the interpretations of the following graphs.
Click on the link below and study the graph in small groups. Then write the infomation within the graph and the table below the graph in your Interactive Notebooks.
The Plymouth Colony
Flagship Mayflower arrives - 1620
Leader - William Bradford
Settlers known as Pilgrim Fathers
The Mayflower Compact provide for
social, religious, and economic freedom,
while still maintaining ties to Great Britain.
The Separatists - Piligrims
The Massachusetts Bay Colony
Flagship Arbella arrives - 1630
Leader - John Winthrop
Settlers are mostly Puritans
The Arbella Covenant clearly establishes
a religious and theocratic settlement
free of ties to Great Britain .
The Congregational Puritans
Plymouth Plantation Anticipation Guide: Learrners will discus in a Whole Group the topics listed in the Anticipation guide to understand the historical relevance in the literature.
Bradford's history was never inteded for publication. It was provably written to remain in his family as a tribute to the founders of this colony. The manuscript came to rest in the library of the Old south Church in Boston and was lost after the church was plundered by British troops in the Revolutary War. Thought to have been destroyed, it was found in 1855 in the library of the Bishop of London and first published the following year. This unit concentrates on the Puritans of New England, because the Puritans, inward looking and industrious, were American's principal writers of the pre-Revolutionary period. Their religion encouraged written self-examination as a manifestation of the writings of God. Even their poetry had a devout purpose.
This selection deals with the Puritans of New England. Puritans tend to look inward. They are industrious. They are the principal writers of the Pre-Revolutionary period. Their religion encourages a written self-examination as a manifestation of the working of God. The Puritan ethic shaped many of our values and continue to affect our lives. "Didacticism" deals with moral issues. Puritans cared about literary theory, about matters of style, and about the development of cultivated literary judgement. Their poetry was a means to an end. And that end was spiritual. England governed a group of colonies on the east coast of North America. After the Revolutionary War, these colonies became the thirteen original states.
The manuscript from "Of Plymouth Plantation" once in the library of the Old South Church of Boston was lost after the church was plundered by British troops in the Revolutionary War. Thought to have been destroyed, it was found in 1855 in the library of the Bishop of London.
Ch.9 Bradford tells of the death of a profane sailor sho earlier condemned the sick Pilgrims. Bradford explained the repair of the main mast and the landing at what is now Provincetown. Ch. 10. Bradford relates the incidents that occured during the search for a harbor and a permanent place to settle. He notes the landing at Plimouth Rock which is today know as Plymouth Rock. Ch. 11 He narrates the events of the "Starving Time" and discusses Indian relations, including the treaty with Massasoit. The chapter concludes with the first Thanksgiving.
Thought Questions: Captain John Smith and William Bradford were important figures in colonizing the New World. Compare and contrast the two men examining each man’s relationship to his fellow settlers, his sense of community (or lack of it), and his view of the role providence played in his affairs and the affairs of his colony. Tone: Bradford's open invitation to the reader to share his observations of the Puritans' circumstances extablishes a simple, personal and direct tone for the history that follows. LEP readers will need help in understanding Bradford's difficult sentence structure and archaic wording. Students familiar with Bible stories can expand on some of the Biblical allusions. Before reading, what did you already know about Pilgrims? Why were they willing to leave the security of Europe and travel 3,000 miles across turbulent seas? What dangers and hardships did they endure during the voyage and as they settled in their home? Since Edward Winslow was present at the first Thanksgiving, his letter about the event is a primary source. The Plain Style Bradford's style of writing is plain style. Bradford uses allusions, but they are Biblical. Bradford's style is considered plain in contrast to the style then popular in England, a syle filled with figurative language and classical allusions. Notice that Inversion is a reversal of the normal English word order in a sentence or phrase, usually for poetic effect. Vocabulary, Lesson 2, Wordly Wise Games Objectives: Improve reading proficiency and expand vocabulary Gain exposure to notable Colonial writers and their works Define and identify significant literary techniques Interpret and respond to poetry and nonfiction, orally and in writing Practictice the following critical thinking and writing skills: a. Analyzing a writer's attitude b. Comparing and contrasting historical accounts c. Interpreting an allusion d. Analyzing character e. Comparing and contrasting the use of metaphors f. Analysing the use of imagery and the conceit cont. Unit 1 - Build Skills: from The General History of Virginia * from Of Plymouth Plantation
from The General History of Virginia by John Smith, page 19 * Preview, page 19 * Selection, page 20
from Of Plymouht Plantation by William Bradford Preview, page 25 * Apply the Skills, page 26
Small Group- The is an application to sail to the New World. (Critical Thinking Activity) Sept. 26th cont. Unit 1 - Reading Information Materials, Web Sites, page 27
ELL learners will gain a better perspective of the historical background after dicussing and reviewing the graphic organizer. All students will gain a better perspectiive of the historical backgroung after discussing the graphic organizer. To restate the title of a poem to its meaning To understand a conceit To analyze two poems To compare and contrast to poems To understand plain style
The poet comtemplates her love for her husband. The poem includes rhyme scheme and comparison and contrast. In using the couplet form (aa, bb, and so on) throughout the poem, Bradstreet reinforces and highlights the strong unity that exists between herself and her husband as members of a couple. By elevating the value she places on her husband's love above, the value she places on gold. Bradstreet project both the depth of her love andits emphatically spirtual nature. Bradstreet suggest that in loving each other fully on earth, and thus trullly reflecting divine love, she and her jusband will attain everlasting love in heaven. By addressing her husband directly in the poem, bradstreet establishes a simple, highly personal tone that adds wrmthe and forcefulness to her declaration of love. What does Bradstreet suggest are joys of a happy marriage? What personal qualities and beliefs does Bradstreet reveal in "To My Dear and Loving Husband that made such heroism possible for her? Background: Anne Bradstreet came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with her husband and her parents in 1630. The Bradstreets settled in the frontier village of Andover, shere Anne, under difficult conditions that tried her faith, maintained a househoid and raise eight children. She had to defend her right to compose verses, for may Puritans, sho did not disapprove of poetry itself, wondered if a woman should write it. Yet her first book. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was published in 1650 and was a great success.
Also a TPCASTT may be used as a method for analyzing the following poems, " Huswifery" by Edward Taylor and "To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet". We will use the TPCASTT for additional poems that we will encounter throughout the year.
For fifty-eight years Edward Taylor was both minister and physician to the people of Westfield, Massachusetts, bordering what he called the "howling wilderness." Because Taylor considered his poems a private record of his religious experience, he asked his heirs never to publish them. As a result, the work of this major New England pet was unknown for 210 years after his death. "Huswifery" (hoos'wif re) is a complicated poem, a prayer in which the poet compares God's granting of grace to the work of a housewife who spines, weaves, and dyes a piece of cloth. By huswifery, Taylor menat not only "housekeeping, " but also "managing well. Within the poem the poet pray to be drawn closer to God. He wants every aspect of his being to be wholly taken over and transformed. There is controlling images within the poem along with religious fervor and physical and spiritual beauty. The speaker's direct address to God establishes the closerness he feels to God and projects the emotional intensity of his plea. Using the spinning sheel in extended metaphor allows Taylor to connect a vision of God as Creator and concern for salvation. The speaker asks God to "clothe" him with the gift of grace. thus making him an instrument of divine will so that he can glorify God on earth and gain salvation in heaven.
According to line 17-18, what does the poet want his "appearel" to "display" and to whom?
What process and shat stages in that process are described in the poem? What role does the poet play in this process? What role does God play?
What does the berb repeated throughout the poem suggest about how the poet views God's role in his life?
How does the idea of spinner operating a spinning wheel convey a relationship between God and human beings?
What did the Puritans believe about a person's relationship to God? How does this poem reflect aht belief? Writing:
Write a brief essay in which you discuss the title of Taylor's "Huswifery". First, tell what the title means. Then explain how the title helps to explain the poem itself. Finally tell whether one (the reader) thinks the title is appropriate and give reason to support your opinion. Use MLA deductive or indeductive reasoning.
What do evangelists offer the people who see and hear them? What influence do they have on the rest of society?
Objectives:
Listen and respond to a powerful Colonial sermon Analyze the writers use of figures of speech, imagery, and emotional appeals Rewrite two paragraphs for a modern audience Rewrite a paragraph from another point of view
Background The series of religious revivals known as the Great Awakening aroused tremendous enthusiasm, although it could not restore Puritanism to its former status. It did have other important effects, however. It led to increased missionary work among the Indians, early antislavery activity, and the founding of a number of colleges, including Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, and Dartmouth.
Summary: The purpose of this sermon is to awaken such unconverted people by letting them see the horror of their fate should the wrath of God be let loose upon them. Only the pleasure of God prevents. His vengence from being wreaked at this very moment. God's pure eyes are angered by wickedness; He abhors the unconverted. Their punishment will be frightful and infinite. Some members of the congregation will no doubt meet this fate, and perhaps soon. This time to obatain salvation is now.
cont. Unit 1 - Build Skills: from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards, page 34 * Preview, page35 * Selection, page36 * Apply the Skills, 41
Some Aspect of the Puritan Legacy: each has positive and negative implications.
1. The need for moral justification for private, public, and governmental acts. 2. The Questing for Freedom - personal, political, economic, and social. 3. The Puritan work ethic. 4. Elegiac verse - morbid fascination with death. 5. The city upon the hill - concept of manifest destiny.
Writing About the Literature: Analyze Literary Periods, page 111
William Bradford
Anne Bradstreet
William Byrd
Jonathan Edwards
Sarah Kemble Knight
Mary Rolandson
Edward Taylor
Benjamin Franklin,
Patrick Henry,
Thomas Jefferson,
Thomas Paine
Dark Romantics Anti-Transcendentalists
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe Transcendentalists
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Realism
Mark Twain
Willa Cather
Kate Chopin
Frederick Douglass
Bret Harte
Naturalism
Ambrose Bierce
Stephen Crane
Willima Faulkner,
Scott F. Fitzgerald,
Ernest Hemingway,
Zora Neale Hurston,
Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck Poets
Robert Frost
T.S. Eliot
Mazine Hong Kingston
Bernard Malamud
N. Scott Momaday
Amy Tan
Richard Wright Poets
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Theodore Roethke
English III, 11th grade, American Literature
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Thursday, August 25
Read and discuss class expectations, Dare County Student Code of Conduct Handbook, and or forms to the students as directed by administration. Have student complete Student Information Sheet, Medical Information Sheet and other school forms that need to be completed for 2011 - 2012
Create a Wordle cover for your Interactive Notebook.
wordle.netWriting, Research, and Oral Skills
Each Thursday and Friday, students will spend time working on selected sections of the Senior Graduation Project.
Poetry Analysis and Oral Presentations
Juniors may opt to participate in Poetry Out Loud. Whether they participate in Poetry Out Loud or not, they are still required to memorize two selected poems and complete a TPCASTT analysis of each in his or her Junior Interactive Notebook.
//Poetry Out Loud//: National Recitation Project
Friday, August 26 - Sept. 7
Part 1 - Junior Interactive Notebook lessons
Unit 1 - A Gathering of Voices: Literature of Early America (Beginnings to 1730)
Read exploration narratives
http://www.infoplease.com/american-indian-heritage-month/Unit Map, page 1
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Writing, Lesson 1
Title: Writer's Style Guide for Students
Grade levels: upper elementary through adult
Content summary: This is a comprehensive reference guide for writers of all ages. It includes a grammar guide, punctuation rules, mechanics conventions, commonly misspelled or misused words, and a guide for citing sources. However, there are a few changes to citing sources that are notes in the link that follow that are updated. Also included is a guide to the writing process and many useful examples.
Downloads: web, Kindle, ePUB
Use this update link for Citing sources:
MLA Format for Research example paper with Works Cited
Use the MLA Format above for all essays
Reading
When European explores first set foot in the New World, they enountered people who had been native to the Americas for thousands of years. Because the Europeans thought they had landed in the "Indies," or the Far East, they called the natives Indians. No one name, however, would adequately describe the variety of cultures that flourished from one end of America to the other.
Generaltion after generation these Native Americans had told stories, sung songs, and recited groups of tales that embodied their past and told of their close relationship with the natural world. Their mythologies, songs, and ritual chants were rarely written down, though some tribes, such as the Delaware, did develop forms of writing, each genetation transmitting its literature to its yong people by word of mouth. The result is a literture that is timeless, a literature created by no one author. It is a literature made by its people.
Objectives:
Respond to some examples of Native American literature
Recognize elements of mythology common to many cultures
Build Skills: Preview, page 2* The Earth on Turtle's Back, from the Onondaga, page 3 * When Grizzlies Walked Upright, from the Modoc, page 4 * from The Navajo Origin Legend, from the Navajo, page 5 * from The Iroquois Constitution, page 6 * Selection, page 7, Apply Skills page 10
Edited 13 minutes ago
Native American Myth
Click the link below and discover what archetypes appear in the video. What deeper meaning do these archetypes respresent, and do these archetypes still exist in our own culture today; if so, explain in detal using the border sheet that I present to you?Selection Test A, page 20
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For homework watch the series:<p> <a href="http://www.firstpeople.us/">Native Americans</a> <br>First People is a child friendly site about Native Americans and members of the First Nations. 1400+ legends, 400+ agreements and treaties, 10,000+ pictures, free clipart, Seed Bead Earrings, Native American Jewelry, Possible Bags and more.</p>
We Shall Remain | //American// Experience | PBS
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Vocabulary, Lesson 1,
Wordly Wise Games
Sept. 7th - 13th
" A Journey Through Texas" by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca"Boulders Taller Than than the Great Tower of Seville" by Garcia Lopez de Cardenas
Vocabulary and Reading Warm-ups, page 26
Literary Analysis: Exploration Narratives, page 30
Reading Strategy: Signal Words, page 31
Vocabulary Builder, page 3
Grammar and Syle: Past and Past Perfect Verb Tenses, page 33
Support for Writing Lesson, page 34
Support for Extend Your Learning, page 35
Enrichment: Career as a Travel Writer, page 36
Selection Test, page 37
cont. Unit I - Build Skills: A Journey Through Texas > Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower of Seville, page 11 * A Journey Through Texas by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, page 12 * Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower of Seville by Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, page 13 * Apply the Skills, page 14
Added 10/27/09: Ready Made Graphic Organizers U.S. History (Colonial to Present) LARGE FIL
Sept. 14th - 15th
The dramatic story of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus has become a familiar part of our culture. For years Columbus tried to convince his patrons that he could reach the riches of the East by sailing west, that he would not sail off the edge of the earth. Finally with the support of Spain's Queeen Isbella, he was able to pursue his dream with his three ships, the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
The discovery ot the New World brought Columbus fame and an appointment as Admiral of the Ocean Sea. His later attempts to establish colonies in America were not successful, however, and his last years were filled with disappointments and a sense of failure.
Here is Columbus' own account, from his journal, of the final days of his first and most extraordinary voyage and the landing on the island of San Salvador in 1492. Columbus' nonfiction, real-life adventure might be considered the first Amerian story--both a quest for a dream and a record of hard fact.
The verson from the Spanish was made by the twentieth-century American poet William Carlos Williams
*Imagine keeping a diary while a diary while on a boat lost at sea. What sort of entries might you make? Why do you think so many early explorers and settlers described the New World as Columbus did? What hopes might they have had for this land?
Thematic Options: discovery, confronting hardship, responses to nature will appear in the following link: Learners will respond in a whole group five important events that took place during the colonization of America during this period of time.
Europeans Colonize Americas (powerpoint)
fom Journal of the First Voyage to America by Christopher Columbus
Vocabulary and Reading Warm-up, page 43
Literary Analysis: Journals, page 47
Reading Strategy: Recognizing Author's Purpose, page 48
Vocabulary Builder, page 49
Grammar and Syle: Action Verbs and Linking Verbs, page 50
Support for Writing Lesson, page 51
Support for Extend Your Learning, page 52
Enrichment: Social Studies, page 53
cont. Unit 1 - Build Skills: from Journal of the First Voyage to America by Christopher Columbus, page 15
Selection Test A, page 54
ELL learners can understand the relevance of the literature through the interpretations of the following graphs.
Click on the link below and study the graph in small groups. Then write the infomation within the graph and the table below the graph in your Interactive Notebooks.Flagship Mayflower arrives - 1620
Leader - William Bradford
Settlers known as Pilgrim Fathers
The Mayflower Compact provide for
social, religious, and economic freedom,
while still maintaining ties to Great Britain.
The Separatists - Piligrims
Flagship Arbella arrives - 1630
Leader - John Winthrop
Settlers are mostly Puritans
The Arbella Covenant clearly establishes
a religious and theocratic settlement
free of ties to Great Britain .
The Congregational Puritans
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Sept. 16th - Sept. 23
Objectives
Respond to an account of the settlement of Plymouth Plantation
Write narration from a different point of view
Write an essay comparing and contrasting two historical accounts
Background Notes:
Bradford's history was never inteded for publication. It was provably written to remain in his family as a tribute to the founders of this colony. The manuscript came to rest in the library of the Old south Church in Boston and was lost after the church was plundered by British troops in the Revolutary War. Thought to have been destroyed, it was found in 1855 in the library of the Bishop of London and first published the following year. This unit concentrates on the Puritans of New England, because the Puritans, inward looking and industrious, were American's principal writers of the pre-Revolutionary period. Their religion encouraged written self-examination as a manifestation of the writings of God. Even their poetry had a devout purpose.
This selection deals with the Puritans of New England. Puritans tend to look inward. They are industrious. They are the principal writers of the Pre-Revolutionary period. Their religion encourages a written self-examination as a manifestation of the working of God. The Puritan ethic shaped many of our values and continue to affect our lives. "Didacticism" deals with moral issues. Puritans cared about literary theory, about matters of style, and about the development of cultivated literary judgement. Their poetry was a means to an end. And that end was spiritual. England governed a group of colonies on the east coast of North America. After the Revolutionary War, these colonies became the thirteen original states.
The manuscript from "Of Plymouth Plantation" once in the library of the Old South Church of Boston was lost after the church was plundered by British troops in the Revolutionary War. Thought to have been destroyed, it was found in 1855 in the library of the Bishop of London.
Ch.9 Bradford tells of the death of a profane sailor sho earlier condemned the sick Pilgrims. Bradford explained the repair of the main mast and the landing at what is now Provincetown. Ch. 10. Bradford relates the incidents that occured during the search for a harbor and a permanent place to settle. He notes the landing at Plimouth Rock which is today know as Plymouth Rock. Ch. 11 He narrates the events of the "Starving Time" and discusses Indian relations, including the treaty with Massasoit. The chapter concludes with the first Thanksgiving.
Thought Questions: Captain John Smith and William Bradford were important figures in colonizing the New World. Compare and contrast the two men examining each man’s relationship to his fellow settlers, his sense of community (or lack of it), and his view of the role providence played in his affairs and the affairs of his colony.
Tone: Bradford's open invitation to the reader to share his observations of the Puritans' circumstances extablishes a simple, personal and direct tone for the history that follows.
LEP readers will need help in understanding Bradford's difficult sentence structure and archaic wording. Students familiar with Bible stories can expand on some of the Biblical allusions.
Before reading, what did you already know about Pilgrims? Why were they willing to leave the security of Europe and travel 3,000 miles across turbulent seas? What dangers and hardships did they endure during the voyage and as they settled in their home?
Since Edward Winslow was present at the first Thanksgiving, his letter about the event is a primary source.
The Plain Style
Bradford's style of writing is plain style. Bradford uses allusions, but they are Biblical. Bradford's style is considered plain in contrast to the style then popular in England, a syle filled with figurative language and classical allusions. Notice that Inversion is a reversal of the normal English word order in a sentence or phrase, usually for poetic effect.
Vocabulary, Lesson 2,
Wordly Wise Games
Objectives:
Improve reading proficiency and expand vocabulary
Gain exposure to notable Colonial writers and their works
Define and identify significant literary techniques
Interpret and respond to poetry and nonfiction, orally and in writing
Practictice the following critical thinking and writing skills:
a. Analyzing a writer's attitude
b. Comparing and contrasting historical accounts
c. Interpreting an allusion
d. Analyzing character
e. Comparing and contrasting the use of metaphors
f. Analysing the use of imagery and the conceit
cont. Unit 1 - Build Skills: from The General History of Virginia * from Of Plymouth Plantation
from The General History of Virginia by John Smith, page 19 * Preview, page 19 * Selection, page 20
from Of Plymouht Plantation by William Bradford Preview, page 25 * Apply the Skills, page 26
Sept. 26th
cont. Unit 1 - Reading Information Materials, Web Sites, page 27
Setp. 27th - 28th
Objectives:
Click to see Lesson plan
To restate the title of a poem to its meaning
To understand a conceit
To analyze two poems
To compare and contrast to poems
To understand plain style
Use this C-Note sheet while reading the poem "Huswifery"
Build Skills:" Huswifery" by Edward Taylor * "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet, page 31
The poet comtemplates her love for her husband. The poem includes rhyme scheme and comparison and contrast. In using the couplet form (aa, bb, and so on) throughout the poem, Bradstreet reinforces and highlights the strong unity that exists between herself and her husband as members of a couple. By elevating the value she places on her husband's love above, the value she places on gold. Bradstreet project both the depth of her love andits emphatically spirtual nature. Bradstreet suggest that in loving each other fully on earth, and thus trullly reflecting divine love, she and her jusband will attain everlasting love in heaven. By addressing her husband directly in the poem, bradstreet establishes a simple, highly personal tone that adds wrmthe and forcefulness to her declaration of love.
What does Bradstreet suggest are joys of a happy marriage?
What personal qualities and beliefs does Bradstreet reveal in "To My Dear and Loving Husband that made such heroism possible for her?
Background:
Anne Bradstreet came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with her husband and her parents in 1630. The Bradstreets settled in the frontier village of Andover, shere Anne, under difficult conditions that tried her faith, maintained a househoid and raise eight children. She had to defend her right to compose verses, for may Puritans, sho did not disapprove of poetry itself, wondered if a woman should write it. Yet her first book. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was published in 1650 and was a great success.
For fifty-eight years Edward Taylor was both minister and physician to the people of Westfield, Massachusetts, bordering what he called the "howling wilderness." Because Taylor considered his poems a private record of his religious experience, he asked his heirs never to publish them. As a result, the work of this major New England pet was unknown for 210 years after his death. "Huswifery" (hoos'wif re) is a complicated poem, a prayer in which the poet compares God's granting of grace to the work of a housewife who spines, weaves, and dyes a piece of cloth. By huswifery, Taylor menat not only "housekeeping, " but also "managing well. Within the poem the poet pray to be drawn closer to God. He wants every aspect of his being to be wholly taken over and transformed. There is controlling images within the poem along with religious fervor and physical and spiritual beauty. The speaker's direct address to God establishes the closerness he feels to God and projects the emotional intensity of his plea. Using the spinning sheel in extended metaphor allows Taylor to connect a vision of God as Creator and concern for salvation. The speaker asks God to "clothe" him with the gift of grace. thus making him an instrument of divine will so that he can glorify God on earth and gain salvation in heaven.
According to line 17-18, what does the poet want his "appearel" to "display" and to whom?
What process and shat stages in that process are described in the poem? What role does the poet play in this process? What role does God play?
What does the berb repeated throughout the poem suggest about how the poet views God's role in his life?
How does the idea of spinner operating a spinning wheel convey a relationship between God and human beings?
What did the Puritans believe about a person's relationship to God? How does this poem reflect aht belief?
Writing:
Write a brief essay in which you discuss the title of Taylor's "Huswifery". First, tell what the title means. Then explain how the title helps to explain the poem itself. Finally tell whether one (the reader) thinks the title is appropriate and give reason to support your opinion. Use MLA deductive or indeductive reasoning.
Sept. 29th - 30th
What do evangelists offer the people who see and hear them? What influence do they have on the rest of society?
Objectives:
Listen and respond to a powerful Colonial sermon
Analyze the writers use of figures of speech, imagery, and emotional appeals
Rewrite two paragraphs for a modern audience
Rewrite a paragraph from another point of view
Background The series of religious revivals known as the Great Awakening aroused tremendous enthusiasm, although it could not restore Puritanism to its former status. It did have other important effects, however. It led to increased missionary work among the Indians, early antislavery activity, and the founding of a number of colleges, including Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, and Dartmouth.
Summary: The purpose of this sermon is to awaken such unconverted people by letting them see the horror of their fate should the wrath of God be let loose upon them. Only the pleasure of God prevents. His vengence from being wreaked at this very moment. God's pure eyes are angered by wickedness; He abhors the unconverted. Their punishment will be frightful and infinite. Some members of the congregation will no doubt meet this fate, and perhaps soon. This time to obatain salvation is now.
cont. Unit 1 - Build Skills: from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards, page 34 * Preview, page35 * Selection, page36 * Apply the Skills, 41
2. The Questing for Freedom - personal, political, economic, and social.
3. The Puritan work ethic.
4. Elegiac verse - morbid fascination with death.
5. The city upon the hill - concept of manifest destiny.
Writing About Literature: Replacing Unclear Pronouns, page 112
Writing Workshop: Narration: Autobiographical Narrative, page 113
Writing Workshop: Use Specific, Precise Adjectives, page 114
Spelling: Proofreading Practice, page 115
Suggestions for Further Reading, page 117
Benchmark Test 1, page 118
This completes Unit 1 of the American Experience: Prentice Hall Literature***
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American Literature OverviewPuritans
Agrarian
Dark Romantics
Transcendentalism
Realism-New Directions
(Naturalism)
Anne Bradstreet
William Byrd
Jonathan Edwards
Sarah Kemble Knight
Mary Rolandson
Edward Taylor
Patrick Henry,
Thomas Jefferson,
Thomas Paine
Anti-Transcendentalists
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Transcendentalists
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Mark Twain
Willa Cather
Kate Chopin
Frederick Douglass
Bret Harte
Naturalism
Ambrose Bierce
Stephen Crane
Scott F. Fitzgerald,
Ernest Hemingway,
Zora Neale Hurston,
Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck
Poets
Robert Frost
T.S. Eliot
Bernard Malamud
N. Scott Momaday
Amy Tan
Richard Wright
Poets
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Theodore Roethke
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